TAM33 Poetry Submissions (PRINT)
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Formatting: Please send us up to three poems in one document totaling five or fewer pages. Poems that contain visuals or art are welcome as long as you own the copyrights. We may accept poems without accepting the art. Please use fonts like Times New Roman/Calibri/Arial, 12pt., 1 inch margins. INCLUDE page numbers at the top of your manuscript. DO NOT INCLUDE your name/identifiers in your manuscript. If the unique format of your submission is critical to the piece, please feel free to keep your unique formatting.
Theme: The theme for TAM33 is currently undecided. We aim to pick a broad theme that will fit most (if not all submissions). Keep posted for updates!
Aesthetic Statement: At Thin Air Magazine, we seek poetry that opens up new experiences we can empathize with, a thread of connection that pulls you in. We applaud artists unafraid to dive into painful memories and showcase how we grow as humans. Our upcoming theme, Systems, explores the impacts of our systems, and how those may reflect on us, our bodies, our relationships, our environment, our pasts, our futures. We believe poetry is a love language and a dagger that holds clarity, relatability, a playful spirit, and tackles feelings of what is hardest to put into words.
Submission Deadline: This year’s print issue deadline is 10/17/26. We have rolling submissions open right now. Reading of submissions begins in August every year and runs until the deadline.
Reminders: In addition to these guidelines, please read our General Submission Guidelines. We only consider unpublished work. Please do not submit material previously published in anthologies, chapbooks, online, or on personal websites (including FB, Twitter/X, Insta, Flickr, blogs, etc.). Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but let us know immediately if a submission has been accepted elsewhere.